I mean, you blow yours on fireworks, why shouldn't he?
Friday, May 29, 2026
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Middle East tanker transits May 21-27, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.3/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 15.6/day
SoH E averages 1.3/day
BAM SE averages 7.3/day
Trump inflation is Bush-league: PCE inflation goes boing, core PCE inflation 3.3% year over year takes us back to early 1992
And you remember what happened to Bush 41 in 1992.
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Real GDP in 1Q2026 second estimate revised lower from 2.0% annualized to 1.6% annualized "primarily reflecting downward revisions to investment and consumer spending" lol
I guess those trillion$ Trump said were coming into the country have not come in, and consumer spending is higher only because everything costs so damn much more due to inflation.
May 21: Consumers are still spending, but cracks are starting to show
Dec 5: Trump touts over $20 trillion in new U.S. investments, but the numbers don't add up
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A191RL1Q225SBEA: 1Q1984-1Q2026 Trend |
Uganda closes border with Congo where as many as 220 already may be dead from Ebola
... The number of suspected cases in eastern Congo is nearing 1,000, with at least 220 suspected deaths. Congo’s health ministry on Tuesday said 101 cases have been confirmed, and they are looking into over 3,000 possible contacts. ...
More.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Donald Trump is the leader of the Party of Violence
... MMA was once considered so savage that at the turn of the century, unlike pornography and other controversial fare, it wasn’t even carried on pay-per-view in many places. Now, the UFC is so mainstream that CBS, a network that on Saturday nights once aired Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, is showing Swanson club Landwehr’s cranium with his right hand, knocking him out in the first round. ... The UFC packs arenas around the world, and the most powerful person on the planet, right beside White, is its promoter in chief. ... Across the room [of White's office in Vegas] are two pistols. One barrel is cloaked in a red bible cover, the other in a black one. “Those two books have killed more people than any handgun ever made,” says White. “I am very antireligion.” ...
When I was a kid we used to laugh at boys with girly names like Dana.
Maybe Dana White's masculinism is as simple as that.
The good news is that the phony Chip Roy lost, the bad news is that the crook Ken Paxton won
But! it will not be without humor, and with any luck Cornyn will serve out his term impeding Trump's impulses.
Nothing screams conservatism like production and consumption
FDR merely gave you a check every month in your retirement, but conservatives gave you gas.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Middle East tanker transits May 19-25, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.4/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 16.4/day
The table shown below is from JMIC Update 50.
The previous update was JMIC Update 48, the table in which in comparison with the one in 47 looked hopelessly screwed up, so I guess they just skipped an Update 49 and started fresh on May 19 lol.
There is no overlap in the table in 50 with the previous table, which has been the customary procedure from update to update.
BAM NW averages 8.7/day, BAM SE 7.7/day.
Keep in mind NW tankers which transit north to fill at Yanbu, then leave and transit south again can thus become SE transits in addition to NW transits in the totals. Most of these tankers are making this round trip, and most of them are 2-million barrel capacity very large crude carriers which sail in empty and sail out again full.
SoH E transits average just 1.6/day.
Russia informs Rubio what's good for the goose is good for the gander, plans decapitation strikes to get Zelenskyy after Rubio flubs up and signs his death warrant by ending talks
Russia tells Rubio U.S. citizens should leave Kyiv ahead of strikes on Ukrainian capital
... Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “officially informed” Washington that Russia would be launching “systematic and consistent strikes” against Ukrainian military facilities and what Moscow called “decision-making centers,” in a call with Rubio on Monday, according to the Russian government. ... Rubio told journalists on Friday that U.S.-led efforts to negotiate a peace deal had ended, explaining that previous talks “were not fruitful.” ...
Yeah, Iran is blinking so hard it's laying more mines in the Strait of Hormuz ROFLMAO
U.S. conducts ‘self-defense strikes’ in Iran as Trump pushes for peace deal
... CENTCOM spokesman Tim Hawkins said targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. ...
Why is the winner pushing for a peace deal?
Usually the loser does that.
Iran is in the ‘process of blinking’ over the Strait of Hormuz, Petraeus says
Monday, May 25, 2026
Trump offers a poison pill to sabotage everything
Trump links Abraham Accords to Iran deal
Again, why did the squirrel cross the road?
Failure of nerve: Trump's ceasefire has only made Iran stronger with each passing day and their negotiating position its strongest in 47 years
Hostilities lasted 38 days.
Today is the 48th day of the ceasefire, the chicken-out.
Asia is sucking fumes.
Europe is buying from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve and will be in trouble similar to Asia in June, and the US itself will develop problems in July.
Oil market at ‘tank bottoms’ in Asia, and Europe isn’t far behind, warns market veteran Jeff Currie
... “I would say, Asia, you’re there. Europe, give it about another month, and look for July being a problem in the U.S.,” Currie said. ... “Every day that goes by, Iran’s negotiating leverage compounds. Why? Because inventories of oil and inventories continue to drop,” he said. “The minute you think you won, that’s exactly when you know you probably lost, and their negotiating position at this point has never been stronger in the last 47 years.”
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